![]() ![]() ![]() “Any anti-virus product that supports the EICAR test file should detect it in any file providing that the file starts with the following 68 characters, and is exactly 68 bytes first 68 characters is the known string. This is a quote from the eicar site, and what to expect from AV products that support the eicar test virus, The only characters that can be placed after the eicar string are space characters, tab, LF, CR, but the total length of the file cannot exceed 128 characters, or again it will no longer be considered the eicar test virus and will not be caught by Symantec Protection Engine. Although this eicar test file cannot have any characters before the eicar string, or it will no longer be considered the eicar test virus and will not be caught by Symantec Protection Engine. Symantec Protection Engine is able to catch the eicar test string in a file, the eicar string being, " ". ![]()
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